Nothing to beat. Nothing to buy.
No ads, no streak-shaming, and nothing held back behind a payment. There are no points, no tokens and no partner prizes — what you earn is a souvenir with a story attached, and it has no cash value because it was never currency. The one leaderboard in the app sits inside a squad you invited people to yourself: ten walkers at most, never the world. Pick a pace that fits your life and let ordinary walking carry you somewhere worth reading about.
Choose a walk
The Camino, the Nakasendō, the Silk Road — or a three-day coast path in the next county. A hundred of the world's great routes, and sixty-five close to home.
Just walk
Steps flow in automatically from Apple Health or Health Connect. No check-ins, no logging, no fuss. Pick a pace, and five good days out of seven makes a week.
Arrive somewhere real
Every stop is a place that exists, with a licensed photograph and a fact that has been checked — plus what people eat there, what you'd hear, and what's living in the hills. And a new place lands every day, whether or not you walked far.
Keep the record
A passport that stamps, a trail journal, a Someday list of everywhere you want to go, a field guide of real endangered species, and gear that names the road it was earned on.
A researched atlas, not a route generator
Every place in Wandelo was written and fact-checked by hand. Nothing here is auto-generated, and nothing is ranked by who paid.
Journeys
Across three worlds — the historic roads, the great modern trails, and the walks within reach of home.
Places
Real stops on real routes, 1,668 of them carrying a licensed photograph and 1,723 a culture note.
Species & flora
132 animals, most of them threatened or endangered, with 792 field notes between them — and 150 plants placed by real biome.
Paid placements
Nobody can buy their way up a list here. If a region ever commissions a route, it is researched to the same standard and labelled as what it is.
Your steps are yours
- Steps are the only health data we read. Read-only, with your explicit permission, revocable any time.
- There is no GPS in this app. Your position on a journey is computed from step counts alone — we never read your location.
- Your home region is a choice from a fixed list of ninety, deliberately coarse, so that asking where you live cannot accidentally collect an address.
- We never sell your data — and our analytics are structurally blocked from ever containing a step count.
The full policy is short and written in plain English: wandelo.app/privacy